Baltimore in The Wire and Los Angeles in The Shield: Urban Landscapes in American Drama Series

The Shield (FX 2002-08) and The Wire (HBO 2002-08) are two of the most ever critically acclaimed TV-shows and they both can be seen as the finest developed film noir proposals produced in television. The Wire transcends the cop-show genre by offering a multilayered portrait of the whole city of Balt...

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Main Author: Alberto N. García
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Bologna 2017-07-01
Series:Series. International journal of tv serial narratives
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Online Access:https://series.unibo.it/article/view/7144